Over 3,500 Australians were hospitalised due to contact with a venomous animal or plant in 2017–18. More than a quarter of these hospitalisations were caused by bee stings (26%), almost one-fifth were caused by spider bites (19%), with redbacks the most common spider involved, and 17% were due to venomous snakes, including 215 brown snake bites. Nineteen people died due to venomous bites and stings in 2017–18.